The best way to provide the highest quality level of care requires an initial meeting where family and/or client meet with a Visiting Care coordinator or Social Worker. This meeting includes a detailed review of care needed, schedule request (if known), specific requests of family or client, and any other concerns. This is an excellent opportunity to ask questions of Visiting CareGiver and it is an excellent opportunity for us to get to know you as well. If you are feeling overwhelmed, we can make recommendations as we have much experience in understanding what works in certain situations.
Specific physical needs of the care recipient with regards to bathing and grooming, dressing, meals and diet, mobility, and incontinence. Reviewing schedules involving sleep, eating and medicine. Specific emotional needs such as social interaction, activities, conversation, appointments, and companionship.
- How do you like things done?
Specific assistance with homemaking such as preparation of meals, groceries, linens, laundry, and light housekeeping. Logistics of schedules, access to the home, documentation, and the details of how to work with scheduling changes, the office or the care workers.
- Where would you like to go?
Listening to your needs, and having conversations with you, helps us make sure we bring you the perfect match. If you would like to proceed with care at that time, we would establish a schedule, finalize the care plan, schedule a field supervisor visit, and coordinate a meeting with care worker(s).
It’s not what we do as a home care agency, but how we do it. All of our elderly caregiving services are delivered with a smile. And we all know that a smile can be infectious. Whether you just need someone to take you for a walk or a to provide attentive complex caring – we, as a home care agency, can provide a caregiver that is qualified to meet your needs.
- When is home care helpful?
If an older loved one becomes frail or weakened by the progression of an illness or age-related condition, it’s a good time to get extra help at home. This allows your parent or grandparent to continue to live independently in the home they love, getting the support they need to stay safe and happy. This type of care is all about maintaining a good quality of life with maximum independence.
- Support with daily activities.
Home care can also be very helpful when a spouse passes. The older loved one now living alone may want companionship or need help with meals, household chores, or driving, as well as support staying active and connected with friends and the community.
Home care can also be very helpful after a serious medical episode, such as a stroke, heart attack, major surgery, or bad fall. Your physician may recommend professional care to support optimum recovery and rehabilitation at home following discharge. In many cases, setting up professional home care is a requirement for discharge from a hospital or medical facility.
- When time is limited.
Near the end of life, home care provides families and their loved ones emotional support and compassionate assistance to improve physical comfort during this difficult time. A care professional can help support hospice workers, provide assistance with personal care when hospice workers aren’t present, or simply be there—24/7 if necessary—so no one ever has to be alone in their final hours. An experienced care professional also knows the best practices and procedures for assisting a person at the end of their life with compassion and sensitivity.
- For a chronic condition or illness
In addition to supporting daily activities and providing companionship, home care is also helpful when caring for a loved one with a chronic condition or serious illness at home. This type of specialized care can offer families many benefits: respite care or additional support for family caregivers, assistance when a loved one needs care overnight, help with transferring, lifting, and toileting, as well as managing illness symptoms and treatment side-effects. Setting up quality, personalized home care for someone with a chronic condition or illness can enable that person to continue to live at home with greater safety and comfort.
